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Systemic Racism

Economic Factors

On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Economic Factors, broken down into the following sections:

Issues in Economic Oppression:  Affordable Housing, Capitalism, Community Disinvestment, Concentrated Poverty, Disposable Workforce, Economic Policy, Exclusionary Lending, Exploitation, Expropriation, Extractive Economies, Depreciation, Dispossession, Federal Aid, Gentrification, Homeownership, Housing Discrimination, Income Inequality, Low Income Housing, Prison Labor, Promotion Gap, Public Housing, Racial Capitalism, Redlining, Residential Discrimination, Targeted Zoning Laws, Union Busting, Wage Labor, Wealth Gap, White Flight, Workers' Rights, Working Conditions, Workplace Discrimination

Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches:   Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy 

Video Clips

Source: AJ+ (2023, February 1). I Own A Home But I’m Still Being Evicted. YouTube. https://youtu.be/LVZsDMm6UVc

Source: AJ. (2021, February 3). Is Capitalism Anti-Black? YouTube. https://youtu.be/kd3_6RntTfs

Source: Vice. (2016, August 16). Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System. YouTube. https://youtu.be/RIghbrn5yfI

Source: Frontline PBS. (2020, February 14). "You're Just Disposable: Former Amazon Workers Speak Out."  YouTube. https://youtu.be/3-KMXng5Cp0

Source: NowThis News. (2020, February 19). How Housing Redlining Contributed to the Racial Wealth Gap and Segregation. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zeecPN35g

Source: Vice News. (2020, August 11). How Property Law Is Used to Appropriate Black Land. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3P_FicO7I

Source: Associated Press. (2021, May 3). Pandemic workers face another hazard: wage theft. YouTube. https://youtu.be/A__i1I5WvcI

 

Source: Urban Institute. (2013, March 25). The Racial Wealth Gap in America. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BvZllI9-U

Books

Podcasts

at liberty podcast

At Liberty

Episode: Reckoning with America's Racial Residential Segregation

Podcast: Who Makes Cents

Who Makes Cents

Episode:Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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Race and Regulation

Episode: Redlined Forever?

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The Roxane Gay Agenda

Episode: Our Tax Code is Racist

Podcast: Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

Episode: Residential Segregation & Structural Racism

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Black History Year

Episode: The Thin Line Between Entertainment and Exploitation

Podcast: Interstitial

Interstitial

Episode: How the Suburbs Were Segregated

Podcast: At Liberty

At Liberty

Episode: Your Friendly Neighborhood Bank: The Post Office

Podcast: 1619

1619

Episode: The Economy that Slavery Built

Podcast: Washington Post Live

Washington Post Live

Episode: The Wealth Gap: Addressing Economic Inequality in the U.S.

 

Podcast: Intercepted

Intercepted

Episode: The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism

Podcast: There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

A podcast about how and why gentrification happens.

Podcast: Data and Society

Data and Society

Episode: Data and Racial Capitalism

Podcast: 1619

1619

Episode: The Land of Our Fathers

(Part 1)

Podcast: State of Working America

State of Working America

Raising workers' voices to make sure they are heard in the economic policy debate.

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